Weather-strip.



No. 690,648. -Patented Ja'n. 7, |902.

C. W. G'AUTSGHI. WEATHER small. (Appumion mea mn. 14, 1901.)

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CHARLOTTE W. GAUTSOHI, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN..

WEATH ER-STRIP.

SEEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,648, dated January 7, 1902.

Application tiled January 14, 1901. Serial No. 43,130. v (No model.)

To all whom, may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLOTTE W. GAUT-V SCHI, a citizen of tlie United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Weather-Stri ps; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to devices to be applied to the outer edges of doors and windows to exclude cold air and dust; and it consists in certain peculiarities ofconstruction, as will be fully set forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the said drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of one form of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a like View showing the said device applied to the edge of a door. Fig. 3 is a detail horizontal sectional view showing how said device closes the opening between a door and its casing. Figs. 4 and 5 are views of different forms of my said device applied Y to the edges of doors as in Fig. 2. FigV 6 is a perspective view of another form.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a portion of a door-casing, and B a portion of a door to which my device is attached. The said device comprises a strip C of any suitable material, having projecting at a right angle therefrom and preferably integral therewith a longitudinal strip D. E E represent nails, tacks, screws, or other suitable fastening devices whereby the strip D of said device is secured tothe edge of a door or window.

In the form of device shown in Figs. l, 2,

and 3 the same is made of suitably-vulcanized soft india-rubber, the parts O and D being integral with each other. 5

In Fig.4=Ishow my device made in two parts,

` the part C having ak filling of cloth, felt, or

other flexible substance,as shown at b, around which is wrapped or folded a piece of cloth c of less thickness and secured by lines of stitching cl d, the cloth c being partly foldedv overitself adjacent to the longitudinal center, with another line of stitching e intermediate of the lines d d, so that the free edge of the cloth outside of said line of stitching e may form the part D of said device.

InFig. 5 I show my device formed by knitl example-which may be unit-ed bya single,

line of stitching, as shown at e. In said Fig.

6 I have shown the folds of the fabric which form the part Oseparated to avoid confusion of lines; but it will be understood -that in practice the fabric is folded closely together.

In all the forms here represented I have shown the part D as of materially less thickness than that of tlie" part C, and this is desirable, as frequently doors iit very closely within their casings, and hence a thin at-l taching-strip is necessary. Further, it will be noted that the strip D is not located in the longitudinal center of the strip O, the reason being so that the part of the said strip O farthest from the line of attachment to the door may have additional protection, so as to cover wide spaces between the door edge and door-casing, as such are not-uncommon, particularly in houses that have been built for some time.,

My device may be made in long continuous strips from which the desired lengths can be cut as required and will be found a very economical and satisfactory article for the purpose intended.

Y Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-H l. The combination with a door-casing and door of a single straight flat longitudinal flexible strip, attached to the edge of said door between the same and the opposed edge of said casing, and another flexible longitudinalstrip permanently'secured to sai'd first-named strip, at right angles thereto and projecting in opposite directions therefrom, whereby, when said door isY closed, the opening between it and the casing is wholly closed' and concealed.

2. The combination with a door-casing and door,of a single straight fiat flexible longitudinal strip, secured to tlie free edge of said door and being of sufficient thinness-to avoid conloo tact with the opposed edge of the easing When the door is closed, and anotherl iiexible longitudinal strip permanently secured to said first-named strip at right angles thereto, and projecting in opposite directions therefrom, that portion of said lastmamed strip which extends beyond said floorprojeeting laterally to a point beyond the line of the opening between the opposed edges of the said door and casing.

3. A Weather-strip,comprising a flexible longitudinal strip in combination with another longitudinal strip permanently seen red to the rst-named strip and projecting thereM from at right angles on a line at one side of the longitudinal center of said first-named stri It? testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set myhand, at Milwaukee, in lthe county of Milwaukee and State of Wis eonsin, in the presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLOTTE V. GAUTSCI'II.

Witnesses:

H. G. UNDERWOOD, B. C. RoLoFF. 

